Portrait of a Woman
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Portrait of a Woman
6.99 €
Anglo-American novelist Henry James (1843-1916) - a recognized classic of world literature, a master of psychological analysis, a brilliant stylist and innovator, the author of more than twenty novels ("Ambassadors", "Wings of the Dove", "The Golden Bowl", "Europeans", etc.), James also owns more than a hundred novels and short stories, plays, three-volume autobiography, travel and critical essays. Born in New York, the writer spent most of his life in the Old World, mainly in England, where he died, taking a year before his death British citizenship. Having learned the lessons of Balzac, Hawthorne, Ibsen and Turgenev, Henry James himself had a marked influence on the entire psychological prose of the twentieth century, it is no accident that he is called the predecessor of such writers as Conrad, Proust and Virginia Woolf. "A Woman's Portrait" belongs among the most significant works of Henry James and is recognized as "one of the greatest novels written in the English language". According to the author's definition, "A Portrait of Woman" is a novel about a woman who defies her fate. The plot is based on the story of a young American woman, with a delicate and noble nature, charming, inwardly independent and inquisitive, who arrives in Europe with a firm conviction that the world is full of inexhaustible possibilities, and a woman's happiness is far from limited to a successful marriage....
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